But later historians declared the romance a myth, pointing out that Herndon drank, hated the woman Lincoln eventually married, and asked leading questions.
It might have had something to do with my memories of reading Enid Blyton's Famous Five, as well as the romance of myths about Tintagel and King Arthur, but I've always thought of Cornwall as a magical place of possibility and adventure – which of course it is.
In comparison with other couples in Ma's study, the rural migrant couple displayed a 'low level of visual competence and limited urban experience' did not subscribe to the 'subtle layers of visuality in wedding romances and myths' but thought that wedding photography was a 'trendy and modern thing to do' (Ma 2006: 61).
(It comes after, and is inferior to, myth, romance and both high and low realism).
If ruthlessly examined, they yield only a tapestry of myth, romance and chauvinist pride.
Human beings enjoy the myth of romance.
Does the old romance of the Burroughs myth still attract you?
It wasn't for the story, a stylized, myth-drenched romance in which a peasant (George O'Brien) is seduced by a hussy vacationing in the village (Margaret Livingston), prepares to kill his wife (the willowy Janet Gaynor), repents, and ends up with her on a jaunt in the city.
The husband became a playwright; his narrative, not only being romantic in terms of the love story, would be made up from the kinds of narratives that men have always dominated: bildungsroman, campus novel, myth, medieval courtly romance, even opera, in which women's sexuality always seems to be punished by death.
